Public Safety committee  The main point of my presentation was about cardiovascular disease. On the use of drugs or the presence of this type of disorder, I'm not an expert.

Public Safety committee  Yes, that's what they report.

Public Safety committee  No, you can go higher, to 180 beats; there's no problem with that. When you have a normal heart, there's no problem with increasing the heart rate when it is an organized electrical activation. That's what we call sinus rhythm. The problem comes when you have the other type of

Public Safety committee  My point of view is that police officers already have firearms, which are much more dangerous, but they have learned how to use them. They have a strict protocol of usage of those arms, and I think that's what should happen: we should have a strict protocol for using a taser, suc

Public Safety committee  To start, I can make a parallel with cigarettes and lung cancer. In the 1960s, people started to think that cigarettes might lead to lung cancer. It's very difficult to prove that one particular individual who died because of lung cancer did so because he smoked cigarettes. But o

Public Safety committee  Mr. Chair, members, I thank you for your invitation. I am a biomedical engineer. A biomedical engineer develops new tools to diagnose and treat illnesses. I have developed computer models that calculate how the current passes through the human torso, in order to improve electroc